Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

As Theodore Twombly (Joaquin Phoenix) leaves his spotless, lonely high-rise Los Angeles apartment for work, he is surrounded by thousands of people doing the same thing—every one of them zoned into their own little bubble, talking to someone (or something) on devices that are networked into their home computers.

This Top 10 list is of the of the Best Cinematography of the Last Decade. Cinematography is the realm of every movie’s director of photography. It’s not necessarily what is in front of the camera but what the camera is doing to capture that.

This decade was a great one for genre films. If anything, it could be remembered as the decade that fantasy/sci-fi/action films really grew up. Of course, Peter Jackson created the critically and commercially successful “Lord of the Rings” trilogy, capping it all off with the first Best Picture win for a fantasy movie ever in [...]